History

1994
The coming out year for the club on its own ‘home turf’ ... The team was ‘littered’ with tailors, including club president Derek Alphonso who was one of the town’s foremost clothing stylists and creators ... Club members joined in making their own competitions kits – choosing the colors gold and black ... Templates were also created in-house to manually paint team’s logo, numbers and names onto gear.

This led to the club also designing and making uniforms for other clubs in Guyana, including all teams in the town, as well as the Guyana boys and girls squads for the Inter-Guiana Games – an annual multiple sports championships among junior players from Guyana (British Guiana), Surinam (Dutch Guiana) and French Guiana in South America.

1996
The club completed formal registration with the governing basketball federation.

Entered first official tournament – a Division III Championship ... Made the final of that championship, but closely lost when a buzzer-beating infringement resulted in converted free throws for the opponents.

Promoted to Division II status … Again, made the finals as a rookie team, and again lost, but this time in a convincing manner.

Went to the Division I level ... The club did not finish in the top-3 in its first championships at this level ... However, no team completely dominated the newcomers.

1997
In realizing it possessed outstanding Under-15 and Under-17 players, the club lobbied for sponsorship for competitions in which they can showcase their talents outside of the more seniors-dominating contests ... Won both championships.

Competed in another Division I championship, but returns were averaged.

1998
First taste of major championship VICTORY. Became Division I Champions by defeating ’mentor club’ Wismar Pistons in the LABA final ... Amazingly, Royals out-rebounded and out-scored their much taller opponents ... Local pundits of the sport posited that the club ‘has arrived’ ... Coincidentally, local basketball experienced an upswing.

The club won the second successive liens on U-15 and U-17 championships.

1999
Club founder and coach Linden ‘Sancho’ Alphonso migrates to the USA ... In farewell message, he admonishes the club to ‘stick together’ even in the face of adversities, such as losing games ... Also commits to supporting the club from overseas, in any way possible.

Kester Jeffrey became the new coach for the club.

The club was selected as opponents for the National Under-19 squad during training for international engagements ... Won and lost in home and away games.

Simultaneous to its successes, external forces were rumoring the demise of the club, mainly as a sign of the departure of its founder ... The club’s subsequent PR efforts reversed these adversarial impressions.

2000
Due to the club being taken through the rumor mill in the previous year, much effort is concentrated on sanitizing its image within and external to its ranks ... Membership structure rebuilding was a main activity.

Competitions were entered, in order to promote the club’s continued existence, but successes were meager.

2001
Club founder Linden ‘Sancho’ Alphonso returned and led a renaissance by the membership in returning to and upholding the true virtues under which the club was initially established – pride, passion and purpose as players and officials.

A major influx of female members gave the club a wider appeal and growing respect.

Expanded to play in national level competitions, as a result of being one of the top teams in the sub-association.